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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| How good was the game? | #24 | 2.982 | 3.400 |
| How engaging was the story? | #26 | 2.631 | 3.000 |
| How Artless was the game? | #29 | 3.333 | 3.800 |
Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Really cool game with a nice atmosphere, I really like the radar mechanic as well. Pretty polished except for some clipping issues with the walls. Also the dialogue overlaps itself if you don't press left click to continue.
This is a fun game, with familiar horror game vibes. The radar with its limits and the extremely limited lighting made the game engaging and fun. I think it matches the theme since there was barely anything resembling graphics since it was so very dark.
So I was having the issue with text not going away and just overlapping and I thought it was a bug:
So I hit escape to take this screenshot, but then when I clicked back into the game it corrected itself and I realized it wasn't a bug at all, I just had to click the left mouse button to get the dialogue to go away. I think you should have taught that to the player or at least include it in the game page description, because this is a really cool take on the theme and I was on the edge of my seat. You did an excellent job of building anticipation and anxiety.
I love that the radar has a time limit on it before you can use it again. I have to ask, is there really a monster? I was able to escape fine and right after I read the "it may have escaped line" I started booking it scared already, but then I was right at the exit. I might revisit to see what happens if it finds me. That's how you know you did a great job. I want to jump back in. Excellent entry. Good atmosphere.
Thanks for the thorough comment. There is a prompt to click to make the text go away but based off of how many people had this issue I definitely needed to make it more obvious or have it under every text box. There is a monster but I think I made it a little too easy to escape. I wanted to make sure the game wasn't frustrating or confusing so I erred on the side of more doable. Again, based on the comments here I could have made it a bit more challenging. I'm glad you liked it though, thanks for playing!
The right-hand technique destroyed this game, also the text wasn't fading out, so it made the story unreadable.
I'm glad you added a radar to the game as it made exploring the level a lot better. Nice use of lighting, good controls and you definitely made the menacing atmosphere you set out to create so it gets a thumbs up from me
Thanks a lot!
there was a monster!? lol
umm the words kept overlapping sooo idk what they were trying to tell me.
man if you would of added monster noises, or creepy sounds, this would of made this way better, i kept feeling something was going to pop out
Thanks for playing! I agree, some monster noises would have definitely helped
I love the atmosphere and lighting, and I managed to escape! I did find a bug where text displayed would overlap, but otherwise, very nice game!
Glad you liked the atmosphere, thanks for playing!